Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

it is by him that you believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory; and thus your faith means hope in God.

but they will have to answer for that to Him who is prepared to judge the living and the dead

(for this was why the gospel was preached to the dead as well, that while they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live as God lives in the spirit).